Quotes About Spirituality

Queequeg no care what god made him shark,' said the savage, agonizingly lifting his hand up and down; wedder Fejee god or Nantucket god; but de god wat made shark must be one dam Ingin.

Bence gölgem olduÄŸu söylenen ÅŸey benim esas varl???m. Bence manevi ÅŸeylere bak???m?z denizin içinden güneÅŸe bakan ve üzerlerindeki kal?n su tabakas?n?n yaln?zca bir hava tabakas? olduÄŸunu düÅŸünen istiridyeler gibi.

The weaver-god, he weaves; and by that weaving is deafened, that he hears no mortal voice; and by that humming, we, too, who look on the loom are deafened; and only when we escape it shall we hear the thousand voices that speak through it. 76

religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

food disciplines are part of every great religion. Psychologically they're almost inevitable, and extremely practical....Religious discipline is nothing but a permanent psychic shelter.

For one's native place is the shell of one's soul, and one's church is the kernel of that nut.

The reason the Dead do not return nowadays is the boredom of it.

He too,I think,should pray to the deathless ones himself. All men need the gods...

A] strange necessity has been laid upon me to devote my life to the central concern that transcends the walls that divide and would achieve in literal fact what is experienced as literal truth: human life is one and all men are members of one another. And this insight is spiritual and it is the hard core of religious experience.

the prayers of those who hold religion in one hand, and

The important correction needed by worldly religions is the transformation from external religious teaching to truthful internal spiritual reality.

To put it another way, God is able to interact with us in ways we interpret (through our time-bound experience of cause and effect) as the result of time-like capacities in the person or essence of God or the existence of other time-like dimensions

Pray to God, but row away from the rocks.

I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

There may be flies on you and me, but there are no flies on Jesus.

If you ask me, any religion that takes the end of the world as one of its central tenets is more or less bogus. In my view, the only thing that ever 'ends' is the individual.

Some friends accused me of whoring after the Infinite. Well, what better whoredom is there?

Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany.

Heaven and earth are my inner and outer coffins. The sun, moon, and stars are my drapery, and the whole creation my funeral procession. What more do I want?

All the basic principles of Bhakti yoga are richly exemplified in Christianity. From the Hindu point of view, Christianity is one great brilliantly lit highway toward God, not greater than other paths, but more clearly marked. On this path God is conceived differently than in jnana yoga, where the guiding image was of an infinite sea of being underlying the waves of our finite selves. This sea typified the all-pervading Self, which is a much within us as without.

The bhakta's approach include repeating God's name, as in praying without ceasing "keep the name of the Lord spinning in the midst of all your activities." Washing or weaving, planting or shopping, imperceptibly but indelibly these verbal droplets of aspiration soak down into the subconscious, loading it with the divine.

The Transcendent was my morning meal, we had the Eternal at lunch, and I ate a slice of the Infinite at dinner.

Our life in historical or chronological time, measuring and minding, cautious and comparing, forms the horizontal arm of the cross. Our experience of the unqualified, of inner, immeasurable time (or timelessness), is the cross's vertical pole. We live in two kinds of time or perspective simultaneously. The horizontal and the vertical are at once quite distinct and entirely overlapping, and to experience their incongruity and confluence is what it means to be human.